Gùnter
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Gùnter is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country, where it is the 37th most common given name. Recorded meaning: From German Gunther, from Proto-West Germanic *Gunþihari, from Proto-Germanic *Gunþiharjaz.
- DEGermany≈1 in 241(inferred from the name graph)
- ATAustria≈1 in 970
- USUnited States1 in 325K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Gùnter itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 193 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 241 (inferred from the name graph)
≈330,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Germany, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Günter in DE Germany, AT Austria, SE Sweden, Guenter in US United States, BE Belgium, CH Switzerland and Gunter in CN China.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
- GermanGunther(measured from records)
- Proto-West Germanic*Gunþihari(measured from records)
- Proto-Germanic*Gunþiharjaz(measured from records)
From German Gunther, from Proto-West Germanic *Gunþihari, from Proto-Germanic *Gunþiharjaz.
Sources 8
- A dictionary of surnames
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
- 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples)
Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Gùnter counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | #37 | ≈330,000 est. | ≈1 in 241 | — | Günter | 193 |
| AT Austria | #107 | ≈9,100 est. | ≈1 in 970 | 551 | Günter | 103 |
| CN China | — | ≈3,600 est. | ≈1 in 388K | — | Gunter | 7 |
| US United States | — | 1,022 | 1 in 325K | 25K | Guenter | 192 |
| BE Belgium | — | ≈830 est. | ≈1 in 14K | 27 | Guenter | 66 |
| SE Sweden | — | 436 | 1 in 23K | 436 | Günter | 18 |
| CH Switzerland | — | ≈380 est. | ≈1 in 22K | 616 | Guenter | 43 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Gùnter mean, and where does it come from?
- From German Gunther, from Proto-West Germanic *Gunþihari, from Proto-Germanic *Gunþiharjaz. Recorded by A dictionary of surnames and Dictionary of American Family Names and 6 other sources.
- Is Gùnter a male or female name?
- Gùnter is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Gùnter have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 332 thousand people named Gùnter in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled günter.
- How common is the name Gùnter?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,022 people named Gùnter in 2020, about 1 in 325 thousand residents.
- How common is Gùnter compared with other names?
- In Germany, Gùnter is the 37th most common given name of 156,202 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/g%C3%B9nterThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Gùnter” — the 37th most common given name in Germany. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.